About Me

Welcome! I am an assistant professor of political science at University of Massachusetts, Boston. Prior to moving to Boston, I served as a committee staffer as part of the American Political Science Association's Congressional Fellowship Program. While on the Hill, I worked on issues ranging from education and workforce development to criminal justice reform.

I completed my graduate work at UC Berkeley in the Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science. During this time, I volunteered with Community Education Partnerships, a non-profit that offers academic support to homeless youth in the Bay Area and taught courses on American politics and history for the Prison University Project at San Quentin. Prior to graduate school, I was a special education teacher at Kramer Middle School in Washington D.C.

As a scholar and teacher, my work explores how electoral pressures and partisan motivations collide to produce policy outcomes that often reinforce political and economic inequality. Positioned at the intersection of legislative institutions and political behavior, my various research projects seek to examine the connections between electoral incentives and policy outcomes, with a substantive focus on education policy, labor relations, and criminal justice. Outside of my scholarly work, I continue to engage issues of inequality in both the classroom and as an active member of the university and wider academic community. From service projects on carceral injustice to courses that examine representational deficits in the legislative process, my work seeks to center voices that are often ignored in American politics.